I recently released my mostly complete Coinbase API for Elixir.

Check it out: https://github.com/gregpardo/coinbase-elixir

Pavlov, a BDD testing framework for your Elixir projects just hit version 0.2.3!

Pavlov provides a rich, expressive syntax for you to develop your unit tests against. Think of it as RSpec’s little Elixir-loving brother.

It is an abstraction built on top of the excellent ExUnit, Elixir’s standard testing library, so all of its standard features are still supported.

Check it out!

Do you want to deploy your Phoenix web app with a little more control, to a server of your own? Get started with simple Ansible deployments for Elixir & Phoenix, using @HashNuke’s ansible-elixir-stack:

http://blog.johanwarlander.com/2015/07/30/deploying-a-phoenix-application-using-ansible-elixir-stack/

Although YAML format is not recommended in Elixir environment, I’ve just released YAML parser for these who, for some reasons, still need it in their projects.

Have a look: https://github.com/KamilLelonek/yaml-elixir

Since you can read this without logging in via GitHub, the final “open” beta phase of this little service has started. ElixirStatus would not be online without the community which it is a part of and which - as always - has been amazing.

I will be updating the Roadmap issue on GitHub as we are preparing for launch!

Do you need to deal with timestamps in Elixir or Phoenix? This is something for you: http://michal.muskala.eu/2015/07/30/unix-timestamps-in-elixir.html

Updated Docker image with Phoenix v0.15.0: https://registry.hub.docker.com/u/marcelocg/phoenix/

http://blog.jordan-dimov.com/stories-of-elixir-in-the-wild-interview-with-matteo-giachino/

Matteo Giachino from prima.it talks about how his company has used Elixir and Phoenix to build a socket app that brings real­-time events to a single-page AngularJS application.

http://blog.jordan-dimov.com/stories-of-elixir-in-the-wild-interview-with-johnny-winn/

Johnny Winn, who has written several open­-source projects in Elixir (calliope, inflex, chronos), talks about his experience in learning and developing with Elixir.

http://blog.jordan-dimov.com/stories-of-elixir-in-the-wild-chatblend/

Shane Logsdon explains how the ChatBlend team used Elixir for the back-end API of their service.

Elixir Phoenix Framework for Rails developers. http://blog.elpassion.com/playing-with-phoenix-framework-rails-younger-brother/

Elixir Playground runs Elixir code in a sandbox and returns the output. The playground is perfect for learning, experimenting, and sharing runnable code.

Limitations: execution is limited to 5s, networking is disabled, and the filesystem is read-only.

comeonin (bcrypt, pbkdf2_sha512) is a password hashing library.

A few changes in the new version affect how password strength is checked. Check out the docs for more info.

http://blog.patrikstorm.com/function-currying-in-elixir

IntelliJ Elixir is a JetBrains Plugin with a verified complete parser.

Read all about 1.0.0 in the Github Release!

https://github.com/asaaki/mix-edip

mix-edip utilizes Elixir Docker Image Packager (EDIP), a tool to package your application release into a very small docker image.

Getting your docker image is now only a mix edip away.

Give it a try!

Elixir documentation right at your fingertips with Alchemist by @samueltonini

An attempt to create the possibly smallest Docker image for an Elixir release.

Read more about it at https://github.com/asaaki/elixir-docker-image-packager.

Now also usable as mix task: https://github.com/asaaki/mix-edip

A blog post about ElixirConfEU, summarising talks, enjoy: http://kabisa.nl/elixirconf-eu-2015-impressions/

In this article, we will walk through the process of creating a simple chat application using Phoenix channels. Continue reading…